The BioWare Social Network now offers downloads of a PC-only beta version 1.01 patch for Dragon Age II, the just-released role-playing sequel. The patch fixes save game issues on single-core machines, the game asking for non-existent drives, release control issues where some players were unable to unlock correctly, and a Steam-specific issue related to VO not playing after switching languages. That last fix is a pretty odd one to include in this beta patch, since there's a footnote saying: "Steam does not support BETA patches. Steam users will have to wait for the final non-BETA patch before they can take advantage of these fixes. We're working on it but, unfortunately, this will not occur in time for the weekend." There is also a typical warning that users are applying a beta patch at their own risk. The patch is mirrored on Gamer's Hell and Strategy Informer.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Mar 13, 2011, 20:21:For anyone thinking people are only talking about the combat: Its the whole game that makes you think youre sitting in front of a console. Just look at the repeating scenery and dumbed down content and controls.I wont even start about the audacious way of implementing DX11.

How exactly are the controls dumbed down? Excluding the camera and the shorter cooldowns, the controls themselves appear identical to me. I pause or unpause the game, select a character tell him to attack a target, have a hotbar of abilities on them, select from that, go to the next character, repeat. Same as the original.

Setting the tactics for auto-control functions identically to the original game as well, save for a couple menus that are side-scrolled instead of drop down. The same options are there, the same complexity.

The repeating scenery has already been brought up, but that's hardly a "console" issue. It's no more prevalent there than it has been in PC games. It's lazy and cheap just as Jerykk pointed out, but trying to add that into your 'consolized' argument doesn't make any sense. That sort of thing has existed in PC games for ages as well.